Name: Greenwich Village's Coziest New Champagne Bar
Uploaded: 2020-01-27
Duration: 2 min 21 s
Description: A restaurant funded solely by female investors, The Riddler is a New York City champagne bar from owner Jen Pelka

 I'm Jen Pelka. I'm the founder of the Riddler. We are a champagne bar in the heart of the West Village, and we're on the corner of West Fourth and Bank. At the Riddler, we have over 150 champagnes by the bottle. Some of them are small grower producers with highly allocated wines. These are the kinds of champagne producers who make maybe 2,000 cases, and there's only one in all of New York. I really wanted to create a space that was incredibly beautiful, that has some touches of luxury, but that also feels comfortable enough that you can be here a couple times a week. For the design of the Riddler, we worked with two sisters from the design firm called Roy in San Francisco. And they helped us to imagine a really beautiful space. So we've got a big bar. I love dining at the bar, whether it's as a single diner or with friends. We took the existing tin ceilings and have them hand gold leafed one piece at a time. Brought in really beautiful milk glass lighting, and we also have really beautiful, really comfortable, booth seating. And we also have a lot of really beautiful vintage touches throughout the space. Some of our signature dishes at the Riddler in New York are oysters. So we've got a killer raw bar. We do a handful of different styles of oysters every night. We've got a great burger that has melted raclette cheese. It's on a delicious potato bun that has some sesame seeds. So guests can really come here for a burger and a bottle or something really special from the reserve list. When I was fundraising for the Riddler, I really wanted to receive all of our funding from women because women are so underrepresented amongst investors. And we've been able to provide investment opportunities for almost 60 women between the two locations, and it's been an incredible part of what we do. Every day we're just pushing really hard to make sure that all of our guests are really happy, having a great time, celebrating with us that we make that night really special and memorable for them. 

Greenwich Village's Coziest New Champagne Bar

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The Riddler is a restaurant funded by female investors.

A restaurant funded solely by female investors, The Riddler is a New York City champagne bar from owner Jen Pelka

I'm Jen Palka. I'm the founder of the Riddler, Where? Champagne Bar in the heart of the West Village. And we're on the corner of West Fourth and Main Riddler. We have over 150 champagne by the bottle. Some of them are small grower producers with highly allocated lines. These are the kinds of champagne producers make maybe 2000 cases, and there's only one in all of New York. I really wanted to create a space that was incredibly beautiful, that had some touches of luxury. But it also feels comfortable enough that you could be here a couple times for the design of the Riddler. We worked with two sisters from the design firm called Roy and Go, and they helped us to imagine a newly beautiful face. So we've got a big bar. I loved dining at the bar, whether it's a single diner. Friends took the existing tin ceilings and have them hand gold. One had brought a really beautiful milk last lighting, and he also has a really beautiful, really comfortable seating. And we also have a lot of really beautiful vintage touches. Some of her signature dishes at the Riddler in New York are oysters. We've got a killer, Robert de Dio, a handful of different styles. Oysters every night. We've got a great burger that has melted cheese on a delicious potato bun. Sesame seeds. The guests can really come here for a burger and a bottle or something really special from the reserve list. When I was a fundraising for the Riddler, I really wanted to receive all of our funding from women because women are so underrepresented amongst investors and we've been able to provide investment opportunities for almost 60 women between the two locations. And it's been an incredible part of what we do every day. We're pushing really hard to make sure that all of our guests are really happy having a great time celebrating the fact that we make that night really special and memorable for them.